What makes a person an “entrepreneur” – is it someone one is born with, or is it ingrained from an early age? Since 80-90% of all companies in North America are family owned businesses, the owners of these businesses rightly want to make sure that choosing their own children as successors is the right thing [...]

A recent article in the ABA Journal online explored a simple, effective – yet often not utilized – method of measuring the success of a company’s customer service function. According to the article, the answer is most easily and effectively found by simply…asking: The article discusses some sage advice, provided by Stacy West Clark in [...]

In light of the recently-issued guidelines from the Florida Bar concerning lawyers’ website compliance, we became very interested in how social media profiles would be monitored once the six-month moratorium on the enforcement of the website rules, in effect beginning January 1, 2010, is lifted. In particular, we focused our inquiries on two sites: LinkedIn [...]

The State of Florida Third District Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s non-final order denying a summary judgment motion for Coastal Masonry, Inc. The company had appealed the trial court’s order, which found that Coastal was not entitled to a workers’ compensation exclusivity defense as a matter of law. This case is shared by Sam [...]

If not – you need to be soon. You have up to six months to make sure your site is fully in compliance with the increasingly-stringent guidelines on how you may present your services everything from your website to your LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter and other online profiles. At Legal Solutions Group, we assist lawyers to be in [...]

A recent post on BizCloud.net discusses how small businesses focus solely on sales as a way of maximizing profit/revenue, while not paying enough attention on the fact that cutting costs and expenses also contributes to a healthy bottom line: There are certain costs that can be cut with minimum risk of negatively affecting the quality [...]

From the ruling: United States 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Reports: KELLY v. MOSER, 08-3318 (3rd Cir. 10-9-2009) No. 08-3318. Filed: October 9, 2009.  Unpublished In November 2004, John Kelly was fired from the law firm Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP, [fn1] where he worked as an “of counsel” attorney. He was fifty-two years old at the [...]

Jason Cohen is the founder of Smart Bear Software. He is also an angel investor in his own right, so he knows what it takes to sway these investors’ decisions to invest one way or the other. He shared four things that companies seeking finance should not do in a recent article for Entrepreneur.com’s Venture [...]